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	Dario Fo Dario Fo 1926-, Italian playwright, actor, and director, b. Leggiuno Sangiano. Fo developed a sharp and irreverent satirical farce that is influenced by Bertholt Brecht and Antonio Gramsci as well as traditional commedia dell'arte (although less formal than the latter). Inspired by the circus... Read more
	Kitty Clive Kitty Clive (Catherine Raftor), 1711-85, English singer and actress. She made her debut (c.1728) at Drury Lane under the management of Colley Cibber and worked for many years with David Garrick, with whom she never got along. Her charm, wit, and vivacity, linked with a fine singing voice, brought... Read more
	farce farce light, comic theatrical piece in which the characters and events are greatly exaggerated to produce broad, absurd humor. Early examples of farce can be found in the comedies of Aristophanes, Plautus, and Terence. During the Middle Ages the term farce designated interpolations made in the... Read more
	Sir Alan Ayckbourn Sir Alan Ayckbourn , 1939-, English playwright and director, b. London. One of Britain's most successful and prolific dramatists, he had his first play produced in 1959 and since then has written more than 50 works for the theater. He is known for the wit and ingenuity with which he portrays the... Read more
	Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero Bredero, Gerbrand Adriaansz (1585–1618), Flemish dramatist, whose romantic plays, drawn mainly from tales of chivalry, are remarkable for the realism of the comic interludes, where characters from everyday life mingle with the more stereotyped knights and their ladies. Among them are Griana... Read more
	Room Service Room Service (1937), a farce by John Murray and Allen Boretz. [Cort Theatre, 500 perf.] Gordon Miller ( Sam Levene), a penny‐ante producer, has a play, a director ( Philip Loeb), a cast of twenty‐two actors, and the promise of a theatre but no money. He sells a ten‐percent... Read more
	The Dictator Dictator, The (1904), a farce by Richard Harding Davis. [Criterion Theatre, 64 perf.] Believing he has fatally struck a cab driver in a fight over a fare, Brooks Travers ( William Collier) and his valet ( Edward Abeles) take the first boat for Porto Banyos, where revolutions are weekly events. The... Read more
	Johann Nepomuk Nestroy Johann Nepomuk Nestroy , 1802-62, Austrian dramatist and actor. A successful performer in comedies and operettas, he later proved himself a brilliant writer of farces and satires. He wrote over 60 plays, including Lumpacivagabundus (1833), a parody of Raimund's Verschwender ; On the Ground Floor... Read more
	Androboros Androboros (1714), a “biographical farce” by Robert Hunter. Established as the first American play to be printed, it has left no records of any performance. Hunter published the work in 1714 as an oblique attack on his adversary, the colonial administrator Francis Nicholson. He... Read more
	John Frazee Pair of Sixes, A (1914), a farce by Edward Peple. [Longacre Theatre, 207 perf.] George H. Nettleton ( George Parson) and T. Boggs Johns ( Hale Hamilton) are partners in a pharmaceutical business that has made a fortune with a “pill [that] will fill the bill.” But their success has... Read more

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	Lahti fleshes out a light side Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) ...00-00-0000 Lahti fleshes out a...Star B Christine Lahti felt her career...desperately," says the actress, explaining her...vs. Men," a farce about marital errors and misunderstandings...vs. Men" is "frothy and ...
	Lahti's career takes comedic turn with 'Women vs. Men' Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...Christine Lahti felt her career...desperately," says the actress, explaining her...vs. Men," a farce about marital errors and misunderstandings...vs. Men" is "frothy and fun," Lahti says it does explore...m. ...
	Just for grins Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) ...VERSIONActress Christine Lahti, best known for...PHOTO)Christine Lahti felt her career...desperately," says the actress, explaining her...vs. Men," a farce about marital errors and misunderstandings...vs. Men" is "frothy and ...